Christopher M. Gemerchak is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Behind the MaskHegel? PART ONE 1. Beyond the Serious 1.1. The Inwardizing and the Calvary1.2. The Sovereignty of Servility1.3.Work, Death1.4. Beyond the Serious 2. The End of Utility 2.1. No Free Gifts2.2. Unholy Alliances2.3. Taking Sacrifice into Account PART TWO 3. Logomachy: Through Discourse To Poetic Silence 3.1. A Contradictory Project3.2. Hegelian Discourse: A "Dog" Eat Dog World3.3. The Hatred of Poetry 4. Mysticism, Eroticism, and the Sacrificial Ruse 4.1. I Pray to GOD... 4.2. Eroticism and Sacrifice: The Body and the Fiction4.3. Through the Mirror Laughter—In Place of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Christopher M. Gemerchak is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Behind the MaskHegel? PART ONE 1. Beyond the Serious 1.1. The Inwardizing and the Calvary1.2. The Sovereignty of Servility1.3.Work, Death1.4. Beyond the Serious 2. The End of Utility 2.1. No Free Gifts2.2. Unholy Alliances2.3. Taking Sacrifice into Account PART TWO 3. Logomachy: Through Discourse To Poetic Silence 3.1. A Contradictory Project3.2. Hegelian Discourse: A "Dog" Eat Dog World3.3. The Hatred of Poetry 4. Mysticism, Eroticism, and the Sacrificial Ruse 4.1. I Pray to GOD... 4.2. Eroticism and Sacrifice: The Body and the Fiction4.3. Through the Mirror Laughter—In Place of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index

Christopher M. Gemerchak is Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

• Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Behind the MaskHegel? PART ONE 1. Beyond the Serious 1.1. The Inwardizing and the Calvary1.2. The Sovereignty of Servility1.3.Work, Death1.4. Beyond the Serious 2. The End of Utility 2.1. No Free Gifts2.2. Unholy Alliances2.3. Taking Sacrifice into Account PART TWO 3. Logomachy: Through Discourse To Poetic Silence 3.1. A Contradictory Project3.2. Hegelian Discourse: A "Dog" Eat Dog World3.3. The Hatred of Poetry 4. Mysticism, Eroticism, and the Sacrificial Ruse 4.1. I Pray to GOD... 4.2. Eroticism and Sacrifice: The Body and the Fiction4.3. Through the Mirror Laughter—In Place of a Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index